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A security services spokesman Miguel Caetano said that according to the statements of those arrested, the organs were to be used for witchcraft.

He said the two arrested men, both aged about 20, said the organs were to be used by healers in rituals to promote the fortunes of the witchdoctors' clients.

The spokesman said that the attacks on bald men for their organs is a new outbreak in the trade in organ parts in which albinos are usually targeted. Pictured above, a young child with albinism on International Albinism Day

They told officers the body parts were sent across to Tanzania and Malawi.

The spokesman said that the attacks on bald men for their organs is a new outbreak in the trade in organ parts in which albinos are usually targeted.

Albinos, who have white skin and yellow hair as a result of a genetic disorder, are regularly killed in several African countries for their body parts for use in witchcraft.

According to the UN more than a hundred attacks against albinos, who have white skin due to hereditary condition that causes an absence of pigmentation, have been registered in Mozambique in the last three years.